CP102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Khan Academy, Collaborative Consumption, Data Mining
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Social networking tools: enable the gathering of groups and people to connect and exchange ideas. Poliicians use social networks such as twiter to provide news to civilians. Crisis-mapping tool: interacion of technology and society is sotware tool called ushahdi. Crisis-mapping tool: collects info from emails, messages, blog posts etc. and makes the informaion accessible to the general public. Health care: intense modeling sotware is helping researchers increase the pace of vaccinaion producion, saving lives. Millions of points of air and water quality data from worldwide can be acquired. Tagged with geographical informaion, can alert scienists to new trends in our environment. Digital divide: term coined for the diference in ease of access to technology. Danger is that it prevents us from using all the minds on the planet to solve the planets problems. Aims- african insitute for mathemaical sciences (founded by neil turok)
